Plans to host an exhibition entitled СFoodstuffs: the SCO BrandТ in St. Petersburg have been added to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Business CouncilТs (SCO BC) programme of events for September 2013. This decision was taken during an SCO BC Secretariat session in Beijing, following a presentation by leading Russian exhibition organiser ExpoForum. The company will organise the event under the aegis of the SCO BC.

The Neva International Exhibition and Conference, which will take place from 24-27 September 2013 at the Lenexpo Exhibition Centre, has been included in the list of events under the auspices of the Marine Board of the Government of the Russian Federation.

A series of business meetings organised by ExpoForum in China between 17Ц21 January have resulted in a number of agreements designed to encourage Chinese companies to participate in Russian exhibitions.

ExpoForum has very quickly become the largest exhibition organiser in the region with a 42% market share, the operator of the Lenexpo Exhibition Complex, and the developer for the construction of the new ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre.

ExpoForumТs new facility is attracting major new projects to St. Petersburg, according to Managing Director of Reed ExhibitionsТ Russian representative office Gregory Zaraisky, at the signing of an agreement finalising the terms for organising and running the PAP-FOR Russia exhibition at a new venue Ц the ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre.